15 Miles From Nowhere

You’re doing what!?!? We’re adopting. Yes, that’s right, we’re adopting. (again) Yes, we know, that this might make us *officially* crazy, but, well, we don’t mind crazy.  We like to think of it as radical.  And not just any radical – radical for Christ.  Weird for God.  A follower, not a fan.  All in.  Jesus Freaks.  Whatever the terminology you prefer, that’s us.  Or at least, that’s what we’re trying to become.  Disciples.  That’s what we strive to be, but I don’t feel even close to adequate to compare ourselves to the disciples.  The disciples in the bible left behind their families, their professions, and their homes.  They were mocked, persecuted, and martyred.  All we’re doing is bringing a little girl home.  Well, first we’ll have to do a million pages of paperwork, raise $25,000, go across the world twice, and then we’ll bring her home.  But bringing home a little girl hardly seems to qualify us as disciples. Okay, she’s not just any little girl.  We stumbled